Rat Pack Is A Misstep

April 26, 2009|- Tom Jicha

It's beginning to look like this is the season American Idol jumps the shark.

The musical theme for the final five this week is standards from the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Or, as it will be known to the young singers, "songs from before my parents were born."

More to the point, these are songs, great as some might be, that were popular before anyone in the crucial 18-49 demographic was born.

I don't want to hear any of the gang of four chastising an Idol hopeful for sounding like a wedding singer.